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5619 was built at Swindon built in 1925 at a cost of £3,988 including £906 for the boiler .
During its employment under BR ownership in spent two years at Abercynon (The village was the terminus of the world’s first steam railway journey when on 21 February 1804 the inventor Richard Trevithick drove a steam locomotive hauling both iron and passengers travelled from the Penydarren ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil to the basin of the Glamorganshire Canal at Abercynon) before moving to Barry in 1950.
It remained at Barry depot until withdrawn from service in June 1964 by which time it had covered 778,263 miles.
 
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LMS 5XP 4-6-0 Jubilee class No 5630 'Swaziland' is seen piloting LMS 6P 4-6-0 Royal Scot class No 6142 'The York and Lancaster Regiment' whilst working an up express service in August 1939.
Built at Crewe works in November 1934 No 5630 remained in service until withdrawn in November 1961 after a collision ay Dallam shed in October 1961 to be cut up by Crewe works.
 
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#5631 is a Northern (4-8-4) type locomotive on display at the corner of East 5th Street and Broadway Street in downtown Sheridan, WY. It is tightly fenced in and there are low shrubs on one side, which together make getting good photos challenging.
 
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 5632 was a O-5b class 4-8-4 “Northern” built in the CB&Q's shops in August 1940. It was used to pull mainline passenger and freight trains before it eventually became famous for pulling a plethora of excursion trains for the CB&Q’s steam excursion program. By the time the program ended in 1966, No. 5632 was disassembled for an unfinished overhaul, and was subsequently sold to locomotive caretaker Richard Jensen. The locomotive was stored inside a roundhouse waiting for restoration until 1969, when it was illegally moved to a scrapyard.
 
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